Qwen3.6 35B-A3B vs mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2: API price and specs

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is 78% cheaper than mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2 on input price.

mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2 is 39% cheaper than Qwen3.6 35B-A3B on output price.

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is 55% cheaper than mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has a 700% larger context than mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2.

Field	Qwen3.6 35B-A3B	mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.012	$0.055 +358.3%
Median input, per 1M	$0.17 +5.8%	$0.16
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.09 +63.6%	$0.055
Median output, per 1M	$1.01 +357.3%	$0.22
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.03	$0.066 +120%
Context	262K	33K +87.5%
Max output	262K	8K +96.9%
Providers	27	3 +88.9%
Regions	EU, GLOBAL, TW, US	—
Accepts	audio, image, image/bmp, image/heic, image/jpeg, image/png, image/tiff, image/webp, text, video, video/mp4, video/quicktime, video/x-flv, video/x-matroska, video/x-ms-wmv, video/x-msvideo	file, text
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	inferx	deepinfra

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

aiml, cortecs, deepinfra

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B or mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2?

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is 78% cheaper than mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2 on input price. mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2 is 39% cheaper than Qwen3.6 35B-A3B on output price. Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is 55% cheaper than mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B or mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2?

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 262K tokens; mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2: 33K tokens.

Where can I use both Qwen3.6 35B-A3B and mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2?

aiml, cortecs, deepinfra